Drones Are All We've Got

Long War: The nominee for CIA Director, John Brennan, was in on the begining of George Bush's CIA drone program. As a Nartional Security Advisor, Brennan was the leading force in convincing Obama to continue the drone program and later expand it 15-fold (Wow!). Brennan was the architect of the CIA's drone program in Yemen, a jihadist playground that at one point held more Al-Qaeda operatives than Afghanistan and Pakistan combined. The Yemeni program can only be described as brilliant and it throttled back the gravest danger zone in the Long War up till Mali. Brennan is Mr. Drone. Here's the rub, with US troops pulling out of Afghanistan and massive military cuts on the horizon, all the good guys have in their arsenal is drones. Without drones we lose the Long War, plain and simple.

The Senators didn't like Brennan telling them to shove their questions about CIA enhanced interrogation where the sun doesn't shine. In their witless anger the brain-dead and mindless politicians decided to strike back. They are demanding documents from the Obama Administration detailing and justifying how CIA drones are used to kill Al-Qaeda (and other bad guys) who are US citizens. The Senators are making a power play, they want more oversight and control over the CIA and think this malarkey about US citizens playes well in Peoria, yeah, like CIA drones are gunning down Boy Scouts in midtown America. This is bad.

Many of the world's top jihadists are US citizens, in fact the most effective bad guy leaders are US citizens. More to the point it would be easy for Al-Qaeda to recruit US citizens and fill their ranks with drone proof bad guys if laws were passed preventing drone usage against US citizens.

Obama needs to step it up. He needs to protect the CIA. He needs to keep citizen oversight to a minimum. He needs to make sure our only effective attack dog is not wearing a muzzle.